involutions in English
noun
1
the shrinkage of an organ in old age or when inactive, e.g., of the uterus after childbirth.
Routine sections revealed normal thymic tissue with fatty involution and no evidence of tumor.
2
a function, transformation, or operator that is equal to its inverse, i.e., which gives the identity when applied to itself.
In his text Traité de géométrie in 1852 Chasles discusses cross ratio, pencils and involutions , all notions which he introduced.
3
the process of involving or complicating, or the state of being involved or complicated.
periods of artistic involution
noun
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1. Held together by hooks and Angulous involutions
2. The second layer, the Arachnoid mater, covers the brain and pia mater but does not follow the contour of the involutions of the brain
3. This Avowal does not deter him from pointing out (6) that the metafictional nature of the Quijote, with its ramifications, involutions, Chinese-box tales-within-tales and presence of author-as-personage within the text, curiously - and even if direct influence is impossible - …